Three scenarios, three schools

How will you handle it if you need to go hybrid or fully remote but a child’s parents aren’t capable of educating them at home or aren’t capable of dealing with remote learning in any way?

Editor’s note:

Education under Siege: A Sun Journal Investigation

This report is part of a continuing series on poverty in Maine, and the strangling affect poverty has on our communities. The work is being done in cooperation with the Investigative Editing Corps.

Some RSU 73 staff and students are quarantining for 14 days and being tested

Staff and students who have had close contact with an employee with COVID-19 have been notified and told to quarantine for 14 days and be tested.

Portland schools delay bringing back elementary students for full-time, in-person learning

Space, distancing and staffing challenges contributed to the decision not to resume full-time classroom instruction Oct. 13, the superintendent said in a letter to families.

Windsor Elementary School reports 2 COVID-19 cases, triggering remote learning for district

Howard Tuttle, superintendent of Regional School Unit 12, said that the probable case "means that the individual has symptoms associated with COVID-19 and they had direct contact with someone who tested positive."

UMaine System under fire for changes to retirees’ health coverage

University officials say the new insurance will save $2.5 million a year and expand benefits, but lawmakers, unions and retirees want them to reconsider it.

Local schools accommodate staff to avoid shortages

RSU 73 staff member tests positive for COVID-19

The employee was not in the schools during the infectious period and no further action is needed now, CDC says.

Norway police chief says ‘it’s been quite a battle here’ over ongoing violence

Tensions remain high in Norway and Paris following the arrests of teens involved in assaults, while parents protest 'lack of consequences.'